Download or read book Britain in Decline written by Andrew Gamble and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 1994-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of Britain's rise and fall, and an introduction to the main explanations of decline and political strategies for reversing it. The book has been updated and has a new concluding chapter which assesses the state of debate and the British economy after the Thatcher decade.
Download or read book The Myth Of Decline written by George L Bernstein and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Britain since 1945 confronts two themes that have dominated British consciousness during the post-war era: the myth of decline and the pervasiveness of American influence. The political narrative is about the struggle to maintain a power that was illusory and, from 1960 on, to reverse an economic decline that was nearly as illusory. The British economy had its problems, which are fully analyzed; however, they were counterbalanced by an unparalleled prosperity. At the same time, there was a social and cultural revolution which resulted in a more exciting, dynamic society. While there was much American influence, there was no Americanization. American influences were incorporated with many others into a new and less stodgy British culture. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this groundbreaking book finds that the story of Britain since the war is marked not by decline but by progress on almost all fronts.
Download or read book The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781 1997 written by Piers Brendon and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greatest, most diverse empire the world had seen. Then, within a generation, the mighty structure collapsed, a rapid demise that left an array of dependencies and a contested legacy: at best a sporting spirit, a legal code and a near-universal language; at worst, failed states and internecine strife. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire covers a vast canvas, which Brendon fills with vivid particulars, from brief lives to telling anecdotes to comic episodes to symbolic moments.
Download or read book Britain in Decline written by Andrew Gamble and published by Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan. This book was released on 1985 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Britain s Decline written by Alan Sked and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1987 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of Britain's decline in the 20th century discusses Britain's economic difficulties, as well as her decline in political, social and moral terms. Is Britain's 20th-century fall from grace the inevitable consequence of two world wars? Was the burden of imperial defence expenditure to blame? Or can it be attributed to aspects of British attitudes and culture?
Download or read book Decline and Fall written by Paul Einzig and published by London ; Melbourne [etc.] : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's P.. This book was released on 1969 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Britain s Decline written by John Walford Lea and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Politics of Decline written by Jim Tomlinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key aim of this new book is to show how economic decline has always been a highly politicised concept, forming a central part of post-war political argument. In doing so, Tomlinson reveals how the term has been used in such ways as to advance particular political causes.
Download or read book Understanding Decline written by P. F. Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of British economic decline is inescapable in contemporary debates about Britain's economic performance and sense of national identity. Understanding Decline is a serious contribution to an important argument, approached in a way that is accessible not only to the specialist academic market but to students of economics, history and politics. Barry Supple, to whom the volume is dedicated, when Professor of Economic History at Cambridge was concerned with various aspects of this historical problem. Indeed, his 1993 Presidential Address to the Economic History Society, 'Fear of failing', already a classic, is reprinted here as a highly effective keynote essay. Other essays pick up this theme in diverse but essentially unified ways, seeking to assess British economic performance in different ways over the past two centuries. They include case-studies through which the reality of decline can be explored, while differing perceptions of decline are examined in a number of essays dealing with ideas and policy issues.
Download or read book The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870 written by M.W. Kirby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was first published in 1981.
Download or read book Was Britain s relative economic decline before 1914 an inevitable consequence of foreign industrialisation or a manifestation of serious failings within the domestic economy written by Nadine Röpke and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-07-10 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, University of Birmingham (Department of History), course: The History of Modern Britain, language: English, abstract: At the end of the 19thcentury Great Britain experienced an economic decline, the reasons for which are still controversially discussed among historians. While some stress the changes in the world economy due to the spread of industrialization in the 19th century, others hold the view that serious failings within the domestic economy are the major causes for Britain’s downfall. After a short description of the degree of Britain’s decline before 1914, some of the major reasons for Britain’s relative economic decline will be analyzed and compared. The aim of this paper will be to evaluate the severity of external changes that the British had no control of as well as internal failings within the British economy that contributed to Britain’s relative economic decline. Writing about Britain’s economic decline at the end of the 19thCentury, it is first of all necessary to define in how far one can speak of a ‘decline’. Most historians point out that Britain’s economic decline is only a relative one. They argue that in comparison to Britain’s earlier growth or in relation to the growth of other advanced countries, like e.g. the USA or Germany, one can realize a decline in the economic performance of Great Britain but that in general there was no decline in the last third of the 19thcentury. Alford renders it more precisely by saying that: “British enterprise, it will be argued, did not decline during this period: it remained remarkably constant and inflexible.” In fact Britain’s GDP was still rising between 1870 and 1890 but, like mentioned before; the annual rate of growth was much slower. According to Crouzet Britain achieved a growth rate of 3.1 per cent from 1811 to 1877, while it fell to only 1.6 per cent between 1877 and 1913. That causes historians to differ in terms of the beginning of the decline. Most historians refer to the year 1873 when they talk about the beginning of Britain’s decline while others argue that Britain achieved its most rapid growth in industrial production in the 1820s and 1830s and that the time of Victoria’s accession could therefore be regarded as the true beginning of the relative economic decline. Nevertheless, in this paper the time around 1870 will be regarded as the beginning of Britain’s economic decline since it was between 1870 and 1913 that Britain’s share of the total world industrial production fell from 31.8 per cent to 14 per cent. [...]
Download or read book The British Industrial Decline written by Michael Dintenfass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out the present state of the discussion of the decline in British industry and introduces new directions in which the debate is now proceeding.
Download or read book Britain in decline written by David Cannadine and published by Baylor University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS: Lecture 1: The Politics of Apocalypse; Lecture 2: The Challenge of the National Past
Download or read book The Economic Decline of Modern Britain written by David Coates and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Economy since 1914 written by Rex Pope and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up to date short study which examines the key debates on British economic performance since 1914. Rex Pope considers the indicators and measures involved in assessing economic performance and then looks at issues affecting the economy such as the role of government, British entrepreneurship, the state of world markets, the effect of the two world wars and the importance of cultural attitudes towards industry.
Download or read book After the Victorians written by A. N. Wilson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinguished historian A.N. Wilson has charted, in vivid detail, Britain's rise to world dominance, a tale of how one small island nation came to be the mightiest, richest country on earth, reigning over much of the globe. Now in his much anticipated sequel to the classic The Victorians, he describes how in little more than a generation Britain's power and influence in the world would virtually dissolve. In After the Victorians, Wilson presents a panoramic view of an era, stretching from the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 to the dawn of the cold war in the early 1950s. He offers riveting accounts of the savagery of World War I and the world-altering upheaval of the Communist Revolution. He explains Britain's role in shaping the destiny of the Middle East. And he casts a bright new light on the World War II years: Britain played a central role in defeating Germany but at a severe cost. The nation would emerge from the war bankrupt and fatally weakened, sidelined from world politics, while America would assume the mantle of dominant world power, facing off against the Soviet Union in the cold war. Wilson's perspective is not confined to the trenches of the battlefield and the halls of parliament: he also examines the parallel story of the beginnings of Modernism-he visits the novelists, philosophers, poets, and painters to see what they reveal about the activities of the politicians, scientists, and generals. Blending military, political, social, and cultural history of the most dramatic kind, A.N. Wilson offers an absorbing portrait of the decline of one of the world's great powers. The result is a fresh account of the birth pangs of the modern world, as well as a timely analysis of imperialism and its discontents.
Download or read book Whatever Happened to Britain written by John Eatwell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides not only a clear exposition of Britain's economic difficulties, but also an introduction to economic theories and a framework for understanding them.
